Seriously. I'm not fucking around with petty bullshit. Keep it reasonable. Keep it civil. Nobody needs to kill themselves, nobody needs to die. If you can't act like fucking adults, you're going to take a time out. This is the ONLY warning.

With recent events in Virginia, and the entire American political situation as a whole being what it is, we need to make sure that we're keeping things on topic. This is a subreddit about Cascadia. There are countless other subreddits for politics, ideologies, religion, race, gender, etc. While discussion of those aforementioned items is not prohibited, we simply ask that you all keep your articles on topic (read: about Cascadia). If the article or post you're making doesn't refer specifically to Cascadia, its probably better suited to another subreddit.

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What's up? It's day #45/90 of YourCascadia's Daily Debate Fundraiser! We're at the halfway point, ladies and gentleman! Our fundraising effort is at the 1/3 point though, so please help us catch up whatever you can spare. Every dollar helps!

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Do we have a day in which we could/should make effort to show extra Cascadia pride and thus raise awareness for it? Like a fourth of July but with Cascadia theme? First day of Fall? Not sure. I think that in order to make Cascadia better known and supported we need to increase our visibility. I'm thinking about running the Shamrock Run holding the flag. Cascadian running team? All holding flag for 5k? Train with flags?

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I get that many people don't necessarily support a serious independence movement but there are still things not only would work as sort of like stepping stones towards independence but help the region itself regardless.

If one wanted to, one could even make a non-profit, LLC, or co-op to consolidate efforts into one organization. It could have a flatter power structure to indicate a demand for more democratic representation. It could do things like;

Establish a formal constitution

I think it's difficult to talk about Cascadia when people have different ideas of what that means. Is it a carbon copy of the US government? The Canadian? Having something out there that people can respond to and change if need be would not just signal independence but a demand for specific political changes to current governments. Why isn't proportional representation used now?

As a tangent, I'm from North Carolina and I have my own ideal political system that I would want to live with.

National ID

eStonia have developed a strong ID system that is in the works of being adapted by the EU. People here are currently using their Social Security number as a proxy with weaker protection. Cascadia can do better.

Central Bank and printing press

Local/Community Currencies are a widely used practice to empower different regions all over the world. The are at least 9 in Oregon alone, one of which is already named after Cascadia. With one official currency we could have

Australian-esque Currency

Australian valuta lasts longer, are water-proof, cleaner, more environmentally friendly, and easier for the blind.

Lateral Lobby body

Similar to the EU, what stops a lobby group to try to write bills that would provide common standards within the Cascadian area? Things like education, regulations, and professional licenses?

Inclusive, mixed-use, metric zoning

This is more a personal opinion but to me, Casadia is not a sprawling landmass and it doesn't make sense to have all infrastructure be based on cars like in the rest of North America. People talk about High-Speed-Rail but it seems bottom backwards to not implement mass transit from the ground-up. And making zoning written in round numbers in the metric system would be a great stepping stone towards converting the region. Unless of course, people would still want to use feet and inches.

Borders

Where are the lines that define what is and is not Cascadia? Is there a consensus? If so, I think it would be beneficial for the region regardless if it gains independence or not. Now I'm not talking about a dumb wall, I'm talking about a modern, comprehensive barrier to illegal activity that doesn’t harm the local environment and isn't a child's view of medieval fortification.

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Format update: In order to try and keep the u/YourCascadia account more neutral, there won't be any topic intros here anymore. I will be posting different individual viewpoints collected below as u/cascadiall (eventually. Gotta lot of catching up to do this week). These will not necessarily represent my beliefs, nor the "beliefs" of YourCascadia itself. Feel free to play devil's advocate as well, and contribute opposing viewpoints in order to make our DebateGraph more complete!